Cold
 
Cold and Allergy Remedies  
 

Red40 appears in a number of cold rememdies, because it's a "perky" color. When you're low and sick, you want to feel more energetic, so you take something red, right? (as opposed to wanting to feel more restful and tranquil, which is when you take something blue or green)

The color red is also used if the manufacturer uses a cherry, strawberry or "berry" flavoring to cover up the horrid taste of the active ingredient. If it tastes like cherry, then it has to look like cherry too...

Bayer
  Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold & Sinus
    softgels
  Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold
    cherry effervescent tablets
  Alka-Seltzer Plus Flu
    honey orange effervescent tablets
  Alka-Seltzer Plus Nose & Throat
    effervescent tablets

Bristol-Meyers Squibb
  Comtrex Acute Head Cold
    Caplets
  Comtrex Day & Night Cold & Cough
    Caplets (day)
  Comtrex Day & Night Flu Therapy
    Caplets (day and night)
  Comtrex Non Drowsy Cold & Cough
    Caplets

McNeil
  Children's Motrin Cold liquid
    berry flavor
    grape flavor
  Children's Tylenol Cold liquid
    grape flavor
  Children's Tylenol Cold Plus Cough liquid
    wild cherry flavor
  Infant's Tylenol Cold Decongestant & Fever liquid
    wild cherry flavor
  Motrin Sinus Headache
    Non-Drowsey caplets
  Simply Stuffy
    cherry berry liquid
  Tylenol Flu Maximum Strength Day
    Gelcaps

Novartis
  TheraFlu Flu & Congestion
    natural citrus flavor
    natural cherry flavor
    natural apple cinnamon flavor
  TheraFlu Cold & Flu
    caplets
  Triaminic Softchews Allergy, Sinus & Headache
    fruit punch flavor
  Triaminic Softchews Cough
    strawberry flavor
  Triaminic Cough liquid
    cherry flavor
  Triaminic Cough & Cold liquid
    cherry flavor
  Triaminic Cough, Cold & Fever liquid
    bubblegum flavor
  Triaminicin Cold, Allergy, Sinus
    tablets

Pfizer
  Benadryl Allergy Kapseal
    capsules
  Children's Benadryl Allergy
    liquid
  Children's Benadryl Allergy & Sinus
    liquid
  Children's Sudafed Cold & Cough
    liquid
  Children's Sudafed
    tablet
  Sudafed Cold & Cough
    Liquid Caps
  Sudafed Maximum Strength
    tablet
  Sudafed Sinus
    caplet
  Sudafed Nasal Decongestant
    tablet
  Sudafed Sinus & Cold
    tablet

Pharmacia
  Children's Pediacare Cold & Allergy liquid
    bubblegum flavor
  Children's Pediacare Cough Plus Cold liquid
    grape flavor
  Children's Pediacare Multi-Symptom Cold liquid
    cherry flavor
  Children's Pediacare NightRest Cough & Cold liquid
    cherry flavor
  Infant's Pediacare Decongestant drops
    fruit flavor

Proctor & Gamble
  Vicks Nyquil
    Cherry flavor
    Original flavor
  Children's Vicks Nyquil
    Cherry flavor
  Pediatric Vicks 44M
    liquid

Rite Aid
  Allergy Medication (compare to Benadryl)
    Capsules
  Day Time Cold & Flu Formula
    softgels
  Diphedryl Allergy Liquid Medication
    cherry flavored
  Night Time Cold Formula liquid
    cherry flavored

Schering-Plough
  Coricidin HBP
    Chest Congestion & Cough Liqui-Gels
    Cold & Flu Tablets

Warner-Lambert
  Children's Sudafed Cough & Cold liquid
    cherry-berry flavor
  Children's Sudafed Decongestant liquid
    grape flavor
  Sudafed
    tablets
  Sudafed Multi-Symptom Cold & Cough
    Liquid Caps

Whitehall-Robbins
  Advil Cold & Sinus
    grape
    Liqui-Gels
  Children's Advil Cold
    Liqui-Gels
  Children's Dimetapp Cold & Allergy liquid
    grape
  Children's Dimetapp Cold & Cough liquid
    red grape
  Robitussin Cold & Congestion
    caplets

 

 

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